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Originally Posted by osugrad21
Hawg, I'm anxious to see the defense against a "traditional" offense...this spread garbage is killing the youth.
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I think we won't have to worry about over-pursuing like we have against the spread teams, but I am worried that our DL hasn't been able to own the LOS like they did the past couple years. We are really going to miss Tim Anderson and Will Smith this week.
Personally I think JT is going to make use of the defense that he ran at YSU to counter the run. It's called Flex X and this is what I remember it looking like (it's been several years so my memory might be a little foggy). We did run some of this against K-State last year with Carpenter playing the X. The X plays a 3 tech and lines up at the heals of the DL. This allows him to flow over the top and avoid blocks easier than if they were running straight Bear. The Strong safety (hopefully Salley in this case) lines up as a choke on the TE and covers him if he goes out for a pass. The Mike and Will line up deeper than normal so that they can flow side to side easier. I don't know what coverage you would run out of this but I'm guessing it's man. At YSU JT didn't have better athletes than most of the teams that he went up against so he loaded the box and tried to have too many people to block.
